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Where There's a Will, There's a River

By Captain William F. Calkins, USNR

Navy oilers are named for rivers. One day there arrived at my desk a letter from a California shipbuilding company. They were about to launch an oiler, their umpteenth in the shipbuilding race of war. Could it be called the USS Marin? ...

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A Naval Career

By Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN (Ret.)

In recent years the technical knowledge and experience required of a “capable mariner” have greatly expanded. Not only have navigation, seamanship, and gunnery become much more complicated, but a vast array of the new technical...

On the banks of the storied St. Lawrence River, President Eisenhower, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, an array of dignitaries, and citizens of several nations will assemble next month for the official dedication of one of the world's most...

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When asked how he won his battles, General Nathan Bedford Forrest said, “I always make it a rule to get there first with the most men.” Whether he really said it that way, or whether he said “git thar fustest with the mostest,...

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This html article is produced from an uncorrected text file through optical character recognition. Prior to 1940 articles all text has been corrected, but from 1940 to the present most still remain uncorrected....

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